Scientists Reveal the Danger of Leaving Your Kids with Their Grandparents

Leaving your kids with their grandparents could be bad for their health and may even increase their risk of cancer, scientists have warned. 
Most parents think of grandparents as a great, if reluctant, source of free babysitting – but they’re actually a deadly silver-haired menace which must be stopped. Or at least that’s what a new report suggests.
 
Grandparents who stuff children with sweet treats and big helpings of chips (in between popping out for crafty fags) could actually be giving the children cancer, the report warns.
 
They also allow them to laze about inside, playing video games or watching TV, instead of running around outside, it is alleged. And they reportedly tend to smoke in front of the kids, exposing their young lungs to second-hand tobacco smoke and setting a bad example.
 
The spoilsport claims come from a review of research on the influence grandparents have on lifestyle factors which can sow the seeds of cancer later in life.
 
Lead author, Dr Stephanie Chambers, the University of Glasgow’s Public Health Sciences Unit, said: ‘While the results of this review are clear that behaviour such as exposure to smoking and regularly treating children increases cancer risks as children grow into adulthood, it is also clear from the evidence that these risks are unintentional.
 
‘Currently grandparents are not the focus of public health messaging targeted at parents and in light of the evidence from this study, perhaps this is something that needs to change given the prominent role grandparents play in the lives of children.”
 
The Glasgow team analysed data from 56 studies from 18 countries that included information about the influence of grandparents on their grandchildren.
 
Overall, grandparents were found to have an adverse effect – despite meaning well. In many cases, such as rewarding good behaviour with sweets, they were putting the health of their grandchildren at risk with kindness.
 
Smoking, poor diet, excess weight and lack of physical activity were all known to increase the risk of cancer, said the researchers.

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